It is also trivial to disassemble and decompile closed-source software. Starting with the names of routines from the public entry points, trace arguments through the code, and thus find potentially exploitable defects. It's almost as easily as the rather obscure "style" of the openssl code that had the heartbleed bug. The problem is, there is a chilling effect because of laws and uncertainty surrounding reverse engineering: http://www.chillingeffects.org... . Therefore, perhaps only criminals will do it looking for exploits, Rather then well-funded (fat enforcement target) Google development teams. Therefore closed source is more vulnerable.

It would be useful for something like a timesheet app. Not interesting to the general public, and yet useful within an enterprise.

Maybe not so legitimate, but he is certainly an active hacker. For example : http://laetitia-schlumberger.com/index0.php and http://horeblawski.eu/euricms/
Softpedia profiled this person in an article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Around-the-World-No-Flaws-Escape-This-Georgian-s-Longrifle0x-252180.shtml
However, a subsequent comment by the author says:
"When this article was published the researcher was a respected member of an important security research team. In the meantime, his work became more "controversial."

Here is a link directly to Nashorn presentation: http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/c/ce/Nashorn.pdf

This will be most beneficial to tool builders. Also, maybe we won't have to use kludgy 'eval' so often when writing highly dynamic javascript.

"Intellectual property rights theft is not a victimless crime. It threatens U.S. businesses and robs hard-working Americans of their jobs, which negatively impacts the economy. It can also pose serious health and safety risks to consumers, and oftentimes, it fuels global organized crime." Here is a link to Homeland Security's rationale: http://www.dhs.gov/topic/intellectual-property-rights

Some types of viruses, like AIDS and flu, mutate more rapidly because of their mechanism of making DNA from RNA which is error-prone. http://www.virology.ws/2009/05/10/the-error-prone-ways-of-rna-synthesis/ Other viruses are more stable may benefit from the idea in TFA. However, to me it seems dangerous to engineer viruses just reduce the number of required booster shots.

Band 4. This will benefit T-Mobile and Cricket. Verison and Sprint are still out of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Wireless_Services

These jobs are relatively immune from competition with H-1B visa holders.

He certainly has a history of uncovering exploits. Here are his youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/longrifle0x

Here is an opportunity to leverage the power of the HPC to detect and correct and workaround any integrity issues in the system. Not a new problem, just the opportunity for productive application of research.

This reminds me of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot commercials that used to be on some of my favorite Saturday morning TV shows years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpuTqD1Nc

This is especially ironic since Leahy is not only handling this warrantless wiretap issue, but he is also a man who has already has resigned from a Senate committee for his inability to keep secrets. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/29/us/iran-contra-hearings-senator-leahy-says-he-leaked-report-of-panel.html

On the other hand, the Patent system works well when viewed in its historical context. They have been a net benefit for innovation. . For example, there are many fewer patents lawsuits regarding Smart Phones than there were in the time the original telephone was invented. Here is a god article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/02/09/no-the-patent-system-is-not-broken/2/
What we need is general legal reform so that disputes can be decided simply and inexpensively without Lawyers getting all the goodies.